Chapter 182: The Soldiers Are Approaching Quarry Rock

"It's too late." Duoduo said: "Don't pass this order to Li Chengdong. At this time, giving this order to Li Chengdong is probably disrupting his army's heart. “

"It's too late."

When Dordor said this, Azig also knew that he sighed secretly. He knew that what Dordor said was not wrong.

Since the initial defeat, Duoduo has retreated with all the soldiers and soldiers to retreat here. Across the river from Nanjing City, he originally thought that they could support each other in the end, but he never thought that when he arrived at the land of talents, how strong the Xia Army Navy Division would be.

On the Yangtze River, countless sailors are swimming, even if a sampan haunts, it has to be interrogated dozens of times, but hundreds of times.

On such a cusp, it was impossible to cross the river to support Nanjing, and it was impossible to withdraw the army from Nanjing. You must know that Li Chengdong may not be in Nanjing City at this time, so how can he withdraw? So at such a time, even if this order can be transmitted to Jiangnan, what is the use, except whether it can disturb the morale of the Nanjing army.

"That's all there is to it." Azig said: "Old ten, you say, is there really no hope for this battle? ”

Dodor didn't answer him, but he was answered by a violent cough, as if he wanted to cough out his internal organs.

"Report." A scout knelt on the ground and said, "The Xia army is coming to Quarry Rock. ”

The two glanced at each other and said secretly, "Have you started?" ”

As one of the three major rocks of the Yangtze River, Quarry Rock is like a hand that goes deep into the Yangtze River. Encircled a large area of water, from here is the famous ferry on the Yangtze River, Zhu Yuanzhang from the attack on Nanjing, there is a quarrying battle, but Chang Yuchun led the troops to climb first, waded through the water, grabbed the Yuan soldier spear with one hand, and rushed ashore. Killed through the enemy's formation, achieved a great victory in quarrying, and shocked the world, so that there was the famous Chang 100,000.

However, now the battle of quarrying will not be as dangerous as it was at the beginning.

The reason is simple, the strength of the Qing army is insufficient.

Shi Tingzhu, who was stationed in the vicinity of Nanjing, desperately begged for help from everyone, just because he did not have many men and horses, and it may not be stable to defend Nanjing, let alone defend many ports on the Yangtze River. At the beginning, Zhou Fuchen's troops couldn't defend it, but now they are facing the Xia army. It can't be resisted.

Zhang Xuan ordered Qin to storm the quarry.

With the support of more than 100 cannons in the back, it was not difficult to attack Quarry Rock at all. Although there were more than 1,000 Qing troops guarding Quarry Rock, but under the bombardment of artillery, these people were discouraged, and when Qin Meng and his subordinates landed on the ship, they almost did not encounter any resistance, and occupied Quarry Rock.

Immediately, the ships of the brigade docked in turn, and Zhang Xuan and his entourage also abandoned the ship

When they went ashore, they set up camp near Quarry Rock.

In fact, if Zhang Xuan wanted to, it might not be impossible to approach Nanjing directly and go ashore, but Zhang Xuan learned the lesson of Zheng Chenggong and felt that it was not too late to march after gaining a firm foothold.

As soon as Zhang Xuan came ashore, he ordered Wang Deren's department to be responsible for finding out the situation near Nanjing.

Zhou Fuchen was responsible for transporting all kinds of personnel and materials ashore, Deng He was responsible for setting up camp, and Gao Yigong was by Zhang Xuan's side for staff officers.

"Where is Yuan Zongdi?" Zhang Xuan asked in the big tent facing the large-scale map near Nanjing City.

Zhang Xuan dared to say that this map is the most detailed map of the whole world to describe the landform near Nanjing. After all, Zhang Xuan also stayed in Nanjing for a while, and under Zhang Xuan's promotion, drawing a map of the world may not be so smooth, but drawing a map near Nanjing is very smooth.

Gao Yigong said: "I have arrived at the Taiping Mansion, and within a few days, I can join the army." ”

The land march was much slower than the waterway, but the Qing army did not have many garrisons in various places, most of them were maintained by officials who surrendered to the Qing army, and after the battle of Chizhou, these people were shaken, and when they knew that Zhang Xuan was marching east along the river. One by one, without waiting for Yuan Zongdi to call, they were already looking at the wind. Hand the drop table to Zhang Xuan.

Now Yuan Zong came all the way, and there was no need to fight at all. It's just used to accept prefectures and counties.

Zhang Xuan said: "Is there any movement in the Jiangbei Qing Army? ”

Gao Yigong said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, with General Zhou and the Duke of Min here, Jiangbei Cunban cannot cross the river." ”

Zhang Xuan frowned slightly and said, "This is not good. Let them let go of this section of the Yangtze River. If the Qing army wants to come, let him come. ”

When Gao Yigong heard this, his heart moved, and he said, "Your Majesty is wise." ”

Zhang Xuan's strategy has never changed, except for the key nodes, the rest of the places are not important, the important thing is to attack the living forces of the Qing army, and the most important thing for the living forces is to take the Eight Banners first, even if it is three for one, killing a Eight Banners soldier is also cost-effective for Zhang Xuan.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan would rather postpone the Battle of Nanjing for a longer period of time, and was willing to let the Qing army invest a little more troops.

"It's just a bait." Zhang Xuan said: "I estimate that the Qing army is not so easy to be fooled, and let them pay attention to it, all from the north bank to the south bank are allowed to be invisible, but a ship from the south bank to the north bank is not allowed to be spared." ”

Zheng Lian said: "Yes." ”

This order is a bit difficult, since this section of the waterway is released, where can it be monitored so closely. However, Zhang Xuan didn't care about this.

The arrangement has just been made here, but I heard someone report from me and said: "Your Majesty, it has been ascertained that a large group of Qing troops are coming from the direction of Ningguo to Nanjing, look."

The banner is the rebel Li Chengdong's department. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Okay, keep an eye on me." Don't let him escape, he honestly stays in Nanjing and waits for death, and he will be fulfilled. ”

The defeat of the Northern Expedition, what role did Li Chengdong play in it. Zhang Xuan's gang is not a party, and they can't say what exactly they are. However, one thing is certain, it seems that it is for His Holiness to blame Luo Yulong's many decision-making mistakes on others, and Li Chengdong has taken the lead in it.

Without Zhang Xuan's deliberate publicity, many people hate Li Chengdong to the core. Zhang Xuan may also know that the defeat of the Northern Expedition may not be all due to Li Chengdong. But Zhang Xuan didn't have a good impression of Li Chengdong, and killed him to send Luo Yulong, Zhang Xuan didn't have a little psychological burden.

If it weren't for the fact that Ning Guo was in the southeast of Nanjing, and Zhang Xuan's location was west of Nanjing, Zhang Xuan would have the intention of intercepting Li Chengdong.

"Your Majesty, behind the Qing army, there is a group of men and horses following, it is General Xu Du." The scout said.

"What?" Zhang Xuan was a little surprised and said, "How many people did Xu Du bring?" ”

"According to the observation of the ministers, there are about twenty or thirty thousand."

After Xu Du was surrendered to Du Yonghe, the number of soldiers he could mobilize in his hands did not increase, but decreased, the reason is very simple, so many prisoners don't need to be taken care of? He left thousands of soldiers to guard the captives, and Xu Jiaying took care of them. He also brought all the officers among the captives with him, so Xu Du counted the soldiers in his hands, but they were only in their early 20,000s. There's a little bit of moisture to this scout's statement.

"How many people are under Li Chengdong?" Zhang Xuan asked again.

"Judging from the ministers, I'm afraid it's more than 50,000, and the specific ones don't dare to approach, so it's not very clear."

Zhang Xuan sighed slightly in his heart and said, "This is really Xudu." Only Xu can do such a thing. "Pursuing the superior forces with weak forces, Zhang Xuan also guessed that Nanjing must be in a hurry, so that Li Chengdong had no intention of chasing behind, or Xu Du, who was following.

But if someone else doesn't have this kind of courage, he is not afraid of Li Chengdong biting back. Or that Li Chengdong has already bitten back, but Xu Du broke his teeth, maybe it's not true.

It's just that although Xu Du has this courage and ability, Zhang Xuan can't help but worry about Xu Du, Zhang Xuan said to Gao Yigong: "General Gao, without further ado, you can go and take Xu Du." After answering, let Xu Du come to see me, you and you can camp directly in the south of Nanjing. ”

Gao Yigong said: "Yes." Then Gao Yigong went out.

Zhang Xuan listened to a noisy sound outside, which was the sound of Gao Yigong's troops. Zhang Xuan dispatched troops with Gao Yigong, and this battle of Nanjing has officially kicked off. It's just that this Nanjing City, whether it is hard or soft, can only be known if you have tried it.